Example sentences of "have [adv] go [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They also argue that the latest draft of the charter , drawn up by President Mitterrand , has already gone a long way to assuage Mrs Thatcher 's legitimate fears about the loss of British sovereignty .
2 The computerised exchange — known as Direct Dialling In ( DDI ) — has already gone a long way to reducing delays for the thousands of callers daily using the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust switchboards .
3 In all , 255 young trees were planted , a huge task which was completed by the garden team at Nymans in ten days and which has already gone a good way towards restoring the diversity of colours , shapes and textures of conifers in their prime .
4 You money has always gone a long way in Thailand .
5 Along with this has often gone a general rejection of the idea of a First Philosophy , more secure than , or prior to , the sciences , and an acceptance of the naturalistic doctrine that a philosophical account of knowledge should be permitted to use empirical information drawn from the sciences .
6 I do n't think they 're every twelve minutes there has n't gone an eighteen up yet .
7 MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week .
8 We 'd only gone a short distance from the trees when suddenly we were hit by a blinding flash .
9 If she had been a man she would not have had to drive round , she would have simply gone the wrong way and got there sooner .
10 He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across .
11 We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street .
12 Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ .
13 Erm there have been erm , I should have written it down actually because I 've I 've just gone a complete blank , there was that erm that famous case in the States ah and there were two people who 'd erm I think the main impetus for the abuse of their child came from the came from the man came from the husband and there was a great deal of er debate as to why the woman had n't successfully protected the child or successfully done something about it er and I 've forgotten the names of the people and I 've forgotten when it was .
14 Jessica had deliberately gone the other way — she wore old jeans and a denim shirt and scuffed brown flatties .
15 I do n't know , they 've probably gone a different way today
16 From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride .
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